The reason why most do not get help
for smartphone addiction is because they see nothing wrong with it.
CP: No, I didn't do specific research in different countries, except for just recently, I was curious about the fact that there seems to be so much more talk going on about this issue, so I was searching on Google Trends
for smartphone addiction and for phone addiction.
Though some neuroscientists have suggested that internet addiction can alter the brain in ways similar to alcohol and drug addictions, researchers have yet to provide similar data
for smartphone addiction.
Not exact matches
That's right — your
smartphone addiction could get you fit in time
for summer.
Right now, the big discussion in Silicon Valley is around the notion of
smartphone addiction, and whether or not it's healthy
for young people to be so attached to the major technology platforms.
«If you go into PubMed [the search engine
for the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest biomedical library] there are maybe 20 articles that include «
smartphone addiction» as a term, and most of those articles just talk about
smartphone addiction as a phenomenon,» notes Choi.
Neither Internet
addiction nor
smartphone addiction is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the principal guidebook
for diagnosing and classifying mental disorders.
Choi thinks Korean teenagers,
for example, may be particularly vulnerable to
smartphone addiction because they spend a lot of time in school and in after - school tutoring programs.
Korean researchers have developed several self - rating questionnaires
for assessing
smartphone addiction, but no single one of them is regarded as official.
Is
addiction to our
smartphones and their ability to connect to social media rooted in a deeper place than a fondness
for cute cat videos?
While
smartphones harness a normal and healthy need
for sociality, Professor Veissière agrees that the pace and scale of hyper - connectivity pushes the brain's reward system to run on overdrive, which can lead to unhealthy
addictions.
Here's one that might actually be worth spending a few minutes of your life on: the
Smartphone Compulsion Test, developed by David Greenfield, PhD, of the Center
for Internet and Technology
Addiction at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
In a letter to Apple, Jana Partners LLC, and the California State Teachers» Retirement System (also known as CalSTRS)-- they control about $ 2 billion of Apple shares — call youth phone
addiction a growing public health crisis and urge Apple to make it easier
for parents to control their children's screen time and to fund studies that would reveal the true consequences of
smartphone use on mental health.
The behavioral
addiction of the usage of
smartphones gradually begins creating neurological brain connections in ways much like how individuals using Oxycontin
for relief of pain experience opioid
addiction.
It is important to note that all these conditions may become precursors
for addictions, including
smartphone addiction.
For example: facts about
addiction to
smartphones were written on a
smartphone template image.
In fact, its fueled by population growth, expanding access to the internet, the continued migration online (& the decline of TV & newspapers), and in turn to mobile /
smartphones, and most of all the iterative human
addiction for more & more info / answers / entertainment.
As Google pushes to cut down on «
smartphone addiction» and Apple fans cry out
for similar implementation, we need to stop and ask where the onus actually lies.
For me, a work - from - home dad with a sports news and
smartphone addiction, that seems like an underestimate, but your luck may vary.
Apple has responded to an open letter published by two of its investors calling
for the company to address
smartphone addiction in young people.
Right now, the big discussion in Silicon Valley is around the notion of
smartphone addiction, and whether or not it's healthy
for young people to be so attached to the major technology platforms.
If we can make a
smartphone addiction taboo (like smoking inside buildings,
for example), people will at least have to sanction their phone time off to delegated places and times, giving their brains a break.
Take heart —
for, according to a study,
smartphone addiction could be a hyper - social behaviour that stems from the healthy human desire to socialise.
For awhile, it was thought to be wearables, with smartwatches finally helping us break our
smartphone addiction.
Republic Wireless has designed a new device
for kids called Relay, and it is intended to curb
smartphone addiction.
The leaked image also shows the Galaxy Alpha's other features: a 1860 mAh one battery, Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, USB 3.0, 4G LTE radio connectivity, Wi - Fi, GPS, a 2.1 megapixel front camera (
for your selfie
addiction), 12 megapixel rear camera, a super-fast autofocus, a heart rate sensor, and a fingerprint monitor now standard in high - end Samsung
smartphones.
One solution to the cravings experienced in
addiction may at hand be on your
smartphone, according to medical news website 6minutes, which reported (registration required) that an Australian researcher had come up with a novel way to stem cravings
for food, coffee, cigarettes or sex a quick game of the block - arranging game Tetris.
Italian Validation of
Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version
for Adolescents and Young Adults (SAS - SV)
For more information about depression counseling or
smartphone addiction counseling in Michigan, contact Perspectives Of Troy Counseling Centers.
[jounal] Kwon, M. / 2013 / The
smartphone addiction scale: development and validation of a short version
for adolescents / PloS one 8 (12)